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Shawk

@shawk.bsky.social

Orphan son, thrice married/twice widowed, four children, disabled Vietnam Era Vet that has served country and corporate across 126 countries.

created June 12, 2023

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Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

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1/9/2025, 5:12:12 PM | 2 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

I married one and have never known her to be quiet about anything. What’s THIS in reference to?

1/9/2025, 5:08:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Doesn’t get enough credit for military service

1/9/2025, 5:04:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump

1/9/2025, 5:03:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

Every time in the store I notice prices increased as less than a week goes by…. Bubble Bath in short supply! Made in Canada

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1/9/2025, 5:01:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Simple 3 steps 1) Remove the wage cap on Social Security payments 2) If $0 income reported, make all debt interest payments the amount the taxpayer owes - monthly. Pay the Bank means Pay the Fed 3) No Carried Interest, No Research, No Carveouts, or Capital Equipment deductions

1/9/2025, 3:48:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

The real Q is; Will Texans go along with being forever screwed over?

1/9/2025, 3:40:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

Did NO ONE read The Diamond Age (Neil Stephenson)? youtu.be/xlx2BWcumbg?...

1/9/2025, 3:35:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Do Parents get to Sue RFK Jr for child endangerment (at state level)?

1/9/2025, 3:05:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

OR She could use Don Jr

1/9/2025, 3:04:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

SUCCESS!! No One wants to Come to America! So much for Eddie Murphy

1/9/2025, 3:01:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Speeches, I love speeches

1/9/2025, 2:59:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

I remember when Silent Spring was written. It gave vocabulary and voice. I remember the OUTRAGE when Nixon vetoed the Clean Water Act. I also remember CONGRESS (both houses) overriding the Veto! No president signed the Clean Water Law. Now, no congress dares challenge the president.

31/8/2025, 10:27:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

No, they don’t

31/8/2025, 8:51:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, what kind of rice?

31/8/2025, 8:49:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

It could be worse… You could have Trump! He’s eligible through his mother.

31/8/2025, 8:48:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Over time…. Get it?

31/8/2025, 8:45:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Robert, Are you familiar with Cipolla’s 5 Laws? Law 1: Everyone underestimates the number of stupid people. Law 3: Stupid people are present in all areas; as evidenced by their actions. No correlation to race, education, wealth or geography.

31/8/2025, 8:44:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

So few do!

31/8/2025, 8:40:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Deb Brown 🚨🇺🇲 (@debpixcom.bsky.social) reposted

🙃 #GavinNewsom #EpsteinFiles

Gavin Newsom passed the Montreal Cognitive Assessment today by reciting
30/8/2025, 7:22:38 PM | 15502 3539 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Without Charlemagne no one would know there’s a second coming…. Darn those despots!

31/8/2025, 8:39:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s the years that the darn squirrels decide how many you have to plant after they are done with the head….

31/8/2025, 8:35:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

I am sooo tempted to take pics of all the boxes labeled Made In China as memories…..

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31/8/2025, 8:05:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Unpopular? An Italian economic historian, Carlo M. Cipolla authored the well-known essay “The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity” ... [an] essay outlining five fundamental laws of human stupidity … e.g. the number of stupid people is always underestimated, and how stupidity is dangerous and irrational

31/8/2025, 4:05:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

chatgpt.com/s/t_68b46f11...

31/8/2025, 3:50:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Keeping fossil fuel in the ground … Utopian indeed

31/8/2025, 3:43:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, and I reject All political labels. I am a critical thinker who attempts low to no personal bias

31/8/2025, 3:20:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Change the way humans organize their lives, change the way power structures human societies, equalize human impact with consideration for all systemic needs - all humans becoming true stewards rather than consumers. Please find that peer reviewed socioeconomic scientific work. I’m still looking.

31/8/2025, 3:18:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

He point is: The World operates on Economy - County - Globe. ALL the global viability issues are treated as separate problems when, according to his analysis, they are ALL just symptoms of the bigger issue - Human societies do not fit in the ecosystem protected by a very thin film of mixed gases.

31/8/2025, 3:14:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

You’re Right! 1 Q How much ‘real scientific work’ has been funded and reviewed on what a recent astronaut has described as ‘the correct paradigm’ - living as a part of an ecosystem rather than part of an economy! He bemoaned humanity’s current inability to see its own true status.

31/8/2025, 3:10:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

It’s okay, they’re just contractors flip.it/O0tlCP

31/8/2025, 3:00:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

Sen. Langford ENDORSING those with Power to Follow Illegal Orders! Used to be a felony flip.it/rYRSFh

31/8/2025, 2:58:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

All America’s opponents together in Beijing . . . Where’s their tool? flip.it/DWe43g

31/8/2025, 2:50:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

Funny Claim. 2.1m Self Deportees Real Question - How many educated, accomplished and experienced Americans are leaving? flip.it/yMSu_T

31/8/2025, 2:47:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Nope What has proven to work is radical decentralization, downsizing and distributed nodal societies… Can’t make any money out of that so it’s unpopular

31/8/2025, 1:09:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Gee, none of that has worked in over 80 years. Already on wife #3

31/8/2025, 12:27:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Kill all the people? Kill most? Solution?

30/8/2025, 10:46:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Those possessing Colored Chalk will be arrested for intent to deface

30/8/2025, 10:38:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) reposted

Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.

30/8/2025, 11:43:54 AM | 24200 4342 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Gee… Why Not?

30/8/2025, 10:35:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

Naval Oranges from Chile $1.59/lb Up from $0.99/lb in March

30/8/2025, 10:29:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Nobody wants AR Rice. Nobody needs AR Rice. Downsize to domestic demand

30/8/2025, 9:56:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Given operating finance, lots of bankruptcies ahead

30/8/2025, 9:54:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Jump on in, the water’s warm

30/8/2025, 8:56:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

But will you spit them out the side

30/8/2025, 8:18:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Wag The Dog Start a war to cloak the Epstein files

30/8/2025, 8:17:23 PM | 17 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes They’re all taking offshore jobs

30/8/2025, 8:15:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

This is fantastic! Do they do Homeowner lawns? Perhaps pressure washing?

30/8/2025, 2:13:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Taking her Millions and running At least AZ Sen Sinema was honest about it

30/8/2025, 2:19:19 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

Early Evening, Summer Ending

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30/8/2025, 2:16:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

What if we grew food that couldn’t be sold? youtube.com/shorts/xa31s...

30/8/2025, 12:09:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

Wall Street is ignoring this rising threat from bonds. Be worried. - MarketWatch The United States government is now borrowing $160 billion a month, a staggering and ridiculous sum that defies human understanding… That works out to around $1,200 per American household. Per month.

29/8/2025, 5:58:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

Others likely to follow Caterpillar’s tariff-cost warning as prices rise MarketWatch Plus International Investors selling, Counter Tariffs lowering sales Rough to be CAT

29/8/2025, 5:51:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

AL LAST An Honest Statement from a MAGA politician flip.it/zoP5VE

29/8/2025, 4:53:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

flip.it/k0xawA

29/8/2025, 4:51:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

JOB REQUIREMENTS: No College Degree Spotty Job History Failed Drug Test MUST be willing to kill kittens & puppies

29/8/2025, 4:50:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

Perfect Opportunity for any State to equip ALL State Government buildings with power storage! flip.it/zGd.yt

29/8/2025, 4:47:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Just before Southeast Asia www.albumoftheyear.org/album/196731... www.albumoftheyear.org/album/6900-d...

29/8/2025, 4:45:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

YES PLEASE . . Before Europe accepts ALL of them for relocation

29/8/2025, 4:40:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

The Next World War Begins . . . flip.it/Y6qDdI

29/8/2025, 4:39:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture darth™️ (@darthbluesky.bsky.social) reposted

the harsh realization that every single administration hire is one of the shittiest unqualified mediocre people in the world

29/8/2025, 1:53:03 AM | 11337 1733 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Only if you care… They don’t

29/8/2025, 4:31:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

REAL HEALTHCARE IS ONLY FOR BILLIONAIRES

29/8/2025, 4:30:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Incompetence combined with Cruelty

29/8/2025, 4:29:20 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Dude… EVERYTHING of ANY value is being “Bought Up’. Where have you been?

29/8/2025, 4:27:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds like Elon

29/8/2025, 4:18:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

‘Human’ Homo sapiens above the age of 7

29/8/2025, 2:01:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture saintmaker.bsky.social (@saintmaker.bsky.social) reposted

The most important thing about the Cracker Barrel logo is the Epstein Files.

28/8/2025, 1:32:16 AM | 1965 474 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

AGAIN! Sen. Collins is regularly ALARMED without any ACTION

29/8/2025, 12:14:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

There’s Permaculture then Regenerative Agriculture.., Compare and Contrast?

28/8/2025, 8:59:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Disaggregate the food supply chain and recover food freedom. Decentralized Power Generation recovers true energy independence - from yet more corporations.

28/8/2025, 8:58:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

You imply this is a Republican-only strategy. Each state does this within its own borders; California and Oregon certainly do this. We are a digital nation. Increasing democracy would require a Constitutional Amendment granting Universal Suffrage from birth or naturalization AND a true National ID.

28/8/2025, 8:55:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

I thought it was the Mitochondrians

28/8/2025, 8:46:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

We’ve encouraged a nest all summer long

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28/8/2025, 8:43:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

We’ve encouraged a ‘best’ all summer long

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28/8/2025, 8:42:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Michael Jackson and Paul McCarthy will be pleased!

28/8/2025, 8:38:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Wasn’t this a Peter Gabriel song?

28/8/2025, 8:34:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

And your point is?

28/8/2025, 8:32:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

R. Heinlein’s suggestion was, ‘Only Honorable Discharged Veterans will be allowed to vote.’

28/8/2025, 4:28:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ed Markey (@edmarkey.bsky.social) reposted

Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.

28/8/2025, 1:43:52 AM | 14044 3189 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

Milk prices jumping from $7 to $14, strawberries that feel like a luxury good, and a switch to processed food: This is the 6-month outlook economists studying labor and agriculture see for consumers. - Fortune 8/28 flip.it/9w8nkF

28/8/2025, 2:55:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s even worse if you have to pack out ALL body waste….

28/8/2025, 2:02:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

We’ve grown more corn and soybeans than ever before… Prices crashing as grain/bean storage companies refusing to buy. FOOD WASTE from USA GOVERNMENT FRAUD! youtu.be/F9y33qTxzgU?...

28/8/2025, 2:01:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

And their families are missing a parent JUST BEFORE SCHOOL STARTS! Incompetence plus Indifference

28/8/2025, 2:25:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

Love the Fair… Bacon babies!

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27/8/2025, 10:23:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

TDLR: Educate, ability to practice Critical Thinking and deal with Facts = Democrat Un or Mis Educated, unable to determine facts, swayed by social media and memes = Republican Philosophers stated recently, “The rise of the intentionally stupid and why the wealthy support it.” flip.it/RcIauX

27/8/2025, 6:49:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

Will BRICS boom under Trump's watch? - DW Dollar dropping. Trade dropping. Deficit rising. BRICS are taking USA OUT of the World’s markteplace. No imports to USA, No exports from USA.

27/8/2025, 5:31:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

U.S. tariffs on Indian goods are now 50%, a level analysts warn is akin to a trade embargo - Fortune The best part — Indian PM WON’T TAKE TRUMP CALLS! The next part - - Modi heads to China to meet Xi The last part : Indian - China trade pact that excludes USA FAFO

27/8/2025, 5:23:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

Modi headed to China. Thank you Trump for pushing these two behemoths into discussion. No Nobel but War now on the horizon flip.it/03jnWn

27/8/2025, 1:02:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

ANYTHING but Epstein www.bbc.com/news/article...

27/8/2025, 12:20:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Worse… We’re wasting what we are harvesting instead of storing.

26/8/2025, 11:09:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

SERIOUSLY GREAT NEWS She deserves this. He’s earned this. Wonder what she’ll sing about now?

26/8/2025, 11:07:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

In Short… Genetic Optimization isn’t quite ready for the Billionaires use

26/8/2025, 5:26:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s what happens Post-Industrialization

26/8/2025, 5:25:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Disinvestment Expands.., apple.news/AA1S04PGHSxq...

26/8/2025, 5:24:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social) reply parent

Too Bad he needs the Courts!

26/8/2025, 4:13:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

Serious Q: At what point will Trump ignore SCOTUS then defund and disband them?

26/8/2025, 4:13:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

It’s an order, no real money changes hands… Cancel on Demand flip.it/5487OB

26/8/2025, 3:33:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawk (@shawk.bsky.social)

Let’s count the hours til his next job … flip.it/KMs_MQ

26/8/2025, 3:31:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Let’s count the hours til his next job … flip.it/6oryR7

26/8/2025, 3:28:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view